necklace

Speech parts

1. necklace - Noun

2. necklace - Verb

Meaning

A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chain collar pendant locket choker torc torque riviere coronet garland bijou ruff rosary medallion chian
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

jewelry jewellery

Hyponyms

strand chain string collar choker neckband

Phrases with the word

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Examples

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it. Amy Tan

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. Christian Dior

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. Rita Rudner

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. Terry Eagleton

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. Alain de Botton

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. George Orwell

Close letter words and terms

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